Ancient TW2: Eastern Empires

**Hound of Ulster** · 04-05-2008, 05:08

cool. keep it up.

**naut** · 04-05-2008, 10:59

Nice!

**axel** · 04-05-2008, 21:23

**seireikhaan** · 05-12-2008, 05:17

Any news on this front, Mac?

**macsen rufus** · 05-12-2008, 11:13

Not for a while.... I was getting a bit burned out, so have put it to one side for a while. I'll get back to it in due course, but first there'll be a v1.1 patch for ATW3 -- hopfully to get more sense out of the Roman AI...

**macsen rufus** · 06-03-2016, 16:11

Yes, this project is going forwards again!

When complete it will have the three campaigns listed above, namely:

Rise of Persia (Early)
Conquests of Alexander (High)
Wars of the Diadochi (Late)

The current Alexander campaign in Ancient v2.53 will be updated and improved; I'm now working on the Rise of Persia and laying the groundwork for the Diadochi.

I plan to release a beta install soon, with RoP and Alex scenarios - when Diadochi is finished there will be a full release.

Some tasters for Rise of Persia:

Faction list:

Macedonians
Athenians
Gandharans
Spartans
Illyrians
Persians
Egyptians (26th Dynasty)
Ionian Greeks
Thracians
Argives
Scythians
Medes
Lydians
Neo-Babylonians

Troop types and recruitment tidied up considerably from the original Alex campaign. Elite troops and bodyguards in particular will be severely restricted (usually to the historical capital province only)

And now for the eye-candy:

Starting faction locations

A quick preview of Lydia

If I get really ambitious I'll do a new front-end, too, to distinguish it from ATW1 (Bronze Age) and ATW3 (Roman)

**macsen rufus** · 06-05-2016, 04:14

Busy day today, trying to remember all the old graphics tricks needed for unit icons and so on... anyway, successfully created three new units, so I think I have the hang of things again.

Here you can see some Median Heavy Cavalry (Medes' 'royal' unit) along with some Parthian Cavalry giving a bunch of Hyrcanian Hillmen very sore heads:

There have also been some other minor changes: I decided Carmania should remain with the Medes, and not go straight to the Persians from the beginning. So the Persians now begin the campaign as a one-province wonder. I think I need to turn down the economy a bit - the factions don't seem to be 'hungry' enough at the moment...